Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The Principle is Emptiness if the world is envisaged as fullness and Fullness if the relative is perceived in the light of its ontological poverty and essential nothingness.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The Principle alone IS while all else becomes, for It alone is eternal in the ultimate sense, while all that is externalized partakes of change. It is the Origin but also the End, the alpha and the omega.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: These are all manners of speaking of the Ultimate Reality which can be known but not by man as such. It can only be known through the sun of the Divine Self residing at the center of the human soul.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: At every moment the universe is absorbed into the Principle and recreated. Although from one point of view creation is old, from another it is fresh and new. God's act of existentiation is ever present: existence is not so much a state as an act.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: For the sage every tree is a reflection of the tree of Paradise, every mountain a symbol of transcendence, the water of every flowing stream a symbol of Divine Mercy, the wind a mark of the Spirit.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Everything has a face turned inward to God beyond all blemish and evil and a face turned outward.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Everything has a face turned inward to God beyond all blemish and evil and a face turned outward.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Countless souls in traditional societies have observed evil and misery surrounding them, but such experiences have hardly ever drawn Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists (to name just a few examples) away from religion and the world of faith.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The only legitimate ecumenism is esoteric ecumenism.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Other religious worlds are a divine compensation for the loss suffered by religion in the modern world as the result of the incessant attacks made against religion by such forces as humanism, rationalism, empiricism, materialism, Marxism and the like.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: One could say that the traditional worlds were essentially good and accidentally evil, and the modern world essentially evil and accidentally good.